[upon seeing Dustin Hoffman`s "method" acting technique of not sleeping and making a mess of himself to get into character while shooting Marathon Man (1976)] Dear boy, it`s called acting.
Laurence Olivier
(on the 1976 remake of King Kong): "I was 15 when that film came out. I took the day off school, went into Wellington and was first in line to see it. It was a disappointment because I wanted it to have stop-motion animation, dinosaurs and the Empire Stat...
Peter Jackson
[about her "comeback" in 1976] Whatever happens, the most important thing is growing old gracefully. And you can`t do that on the cover of a fan magazine.
Audrey Hepburn
[On his show "Quincy M.E." (1976)]: We were the first CSI. All these other shows just took what we did and made it bloodier and sexier. Our show was actually about something, we had a message and a moral. You can`t compare gold to tin foil. I was a one ma...
Jack Klugman
[regarding then competing series "Wonder Woman" (1976)] And as for "Wonder Woman" . . . there`s nothing there . . . nothing to show at all but a "beautiful body", and that`s it. You never get a chance to find out anything about the person at all. What a b...
Lou Ferrigno
It`s true - I am a bisexual. But I can`t deny that I`ve used that fact very well. I suppose it`s the best thing that ever happened to me. Fun, too. - in 1976 interview with Playboy
David Bowie
[quoted in the December 1976 issue of "Playgirl"] I don`t want to be known as a sex symbol. There`s a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
Sam Elliott
On her role in Taxi Driver (1976), when she was 13: "I spent four hours with a shrink trying to prove I was normal enough to play a hooker. Does that make sense?"
Jodie Foster
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn`t end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institut...
Margot Kidder
[On "The Muppet Show" (1976) head writer, Jerry Juhl]: He was the person responsible really for the heart of the Muppets. He just knew the characters better than anybody else. He was brilliant because he could be funny but not nasty. He always saw the aff...
Frank Oz
On the making of Taxi Driver (1976): "You rarely have a director like Martin Scorsese or a co-star like Robert De Niro, who rehearses and rehearses until you get the feeling that for the time you`re with him he is the character. It`s so real it`s frighten...
Jodie Foster
[speaking in 1976] The heavies in my day were kid`s stuff compared to today. Our villains had no redeeming qualities. But there`s a new morality today. A villain is a guy with a frailty. Heroes are villains.
Richard Widmark
I know I`ve made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence. I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns. (1976)
Richard Widmark
[talking about the film versions of "Charlie`s Angels" (1976)] I think they missed the mark. In the TV show, Farrah [Farrah Fawcett], Jaclyn [Jaclyn Smith] and I were best friends who cared for each other and I think that came through in the acting. In th...
Kate Jackson
I believe in living each day as it comes, to the best of my ability. When it`s done, I put it away, remembering that there will be a tomorrow to take it`s place. If I have any philosophy, that`s it. To me it`s not a fatalistic attitude.
[on Fred Astair...
Ginger Rogers
[on Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, 1976] "I didn`t help or discourage them or lead them by the hand. I`m not trying to set myself up as a good father, because I wasn`t a good father. But I think I knew instinctively that if they did make it, they would like ...
Henry Fonda
[On the failure of his experimental educational/variety show, "Cos" (1976)] My first series ["I Spy" (1965)] ran three years, my second ["The Bill Cosby Show" (1969)] ran two years and my third ["The New Bill Cosby Show" (1972)] ran one. This show, if I`m...
Bill Cosby
[Explaining to The New York Times how he wrote the script for Rocky (1976) in three days] I`m astounded by people who take 18 years to write something. That`s how long it took that guy [Gustave Flaubert] to write "Madame Bovary". And was that ever on the ...
Sylvester Stallone
On Taxi Driver (1976): "I think it`s one of the finest films that`s ever been made in America. It`s a statement about America. About violence. About loneliness. Anonymity. Some of the best works are those that have tried to imitate that kind of film, that...
Jodie Foster
On her role as the child prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver (1976): "At first I didn`t want to do the part, but only because I was afraid my friends would tease me afterwards. I thought, wow, they`ve got to be kidding. It was a great part for a 21-year old, b...
Jodie Foster
[in 1976] They say Wilder is out of touch with his times. Frankly, I regard it as a compliment. Who the hell wants to be in touch with these times?
Billy Wilder
[1976 comment on Bing Crosby] He stays in his room when he is working on a new number or planning a show. The casual air is deceptive. He is relaxed but not lazy.
Kathryn Grant
I`m just doing the best I can with what I have. There are certain physical limitations to being a WASPy-looking dude from Indiana, right? "Travis Bickle [from Taxi Driver (1976)] Part 2" probably ain`t coming my way. So with the roles I get, as best as I ...
Greg Kinnear
I saw Taxi Driver (1976) five or six times in the first week, and I was astonished by its sheer visceral beauty. I just kept going back - I didn`t know America, but that was a glimpse of what America might be, and I realized that, contrary to expectation,...
Daniel Day-Lewis
[upon seeing Dustin Hoffman`s "method" acting technique of not sleeping and making a mess of himself to get into character while shooting Marathon Man (1976)] Dear boy, it`s called acting.
Laurence Olivier
